Stamford is a town made for walking, full of lanes and alleyways opening on to the unexpected.
It’s in Stamford, a Lincolnshire town that my husband and I had often passed on our way to and from Lincoln, where he grew up, but we never stopped for a look and over the years, I started to confuse Stamford with nearby Grantham, Margaret Thatcher’s bigger and much busier hometown, a very different place.So Stamford comes as a complete revelation to me.
We follow one and find ourselves in the cloisters lining the gardens of Brownes Hospital, an ornate 15th-century building with a crenellated clock tower and stained-glass windows. Even so, it is just a short distance from some of the town’s grandest houses. One of them, Stukeley House, is a relative newcomer, dating only from 1800, but the house that once stood on its site is said to have sheltered Charles I on his last night of freedom in 1646.The history of the town goes back to the 11th century – it appears in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Others, regrettably, have joined a list of The Lost Pubs of Stamford, compiled by local historians. The Anchor is now a Pizza Express; The Blue Bell , which once commanded the eastern side of Ironmonger Street, is an estate agent’s office; and The Coach and Horses, another coaching inn, has become a kitchen showroom.
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